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...They can be unrealistic, like the failed €36bn tie-up between the European defence giants BAE Systems and EADS in 2012; overpriced and overleveraged, like the takeover of the UK’s airports by Spain’s Ferrovial...
...EADS, for example, up 30 per cent, has been shooting the lights out ever since its “transformational” deal with BAE crashed and burnt....
...The case could complicate US approval of the proposed merger between EADS, Airbus’s parent company, and BAE Systems....
...It is not surprising, then, to find Charlie Black at the heart of this year’s presidential race as an adviser to John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee....
...However, Charlie McCreevy, the EU internal market commissioner, has expressed his concerns, declaring that golden shares “have no place in the internal market” while also admitting that they have been allowed...
...Charlie McCreevy, the internal market commissioner, will report on the issue before the end of the year. He believes that sovereign wealth funds could distort the market....
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